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The Secret China-U.S. Hacking War?

Posted by Zonk on from the can't-we-all-get-along-online dept.

bored-at-IETF-ntp-session writes "In an article at eWeek Larry Seltzer examines the supposed hacking war between the US and China. He surmises 'Even if you can't prove that the government was involved ... it still bears some responsibility'. He quotes Gadi Evron who advised the Estonians during the Russian attacks. 'I can confirm targeted attacks with sophisticated technologies have been launched against obvious enemies of China ... Who is behind these attacks can't be easily said, but it can be an American cyber-criminal, a Nigerian spammer or the Chinese themselves.' Seltzer concluded 'It's just another espionage tool, and no more or less moral than others we've used in the past.'" This a subject we've also previously discussed.

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  1. s/secret/formerly secret/ by grub · · Score: 3, Funny

    Fixed that for you.

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  2. Not suprised by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can confirm this. I work for the department of defense, and we get port sweeps every day coming from china.

    1. Re:Not suprised by Deanalator · · Score: 1, Funny

      You must have forgotten to put on your lulz hat this morning :-p

    2. Re:Not suprised by Deanalator · · Score: 2, Funny

      Seriously now, did I just get a troll mod point for mentioning the word "lulz"?

      geez.. some people.

    3. Re:Not suprised by MightyYar · · Score: 5, Funny

      LOL.

      For kicks, I opened up my secure log (just on my home computer, which only has ssh enabled)...
      221.120.210.42 - Pakistan
      194.19.140.202 - Denmark
      201.251.126.210 - Argentina (who tried to log in with "fluffy", among others...)
      203.90.124.69 - India (and from a company my company contracts with! small world)
      80.55.178.206 - Poland
      61.115.238.121 - Japan
      218.95.228.154 - China! Finally.
      66.166.72.206 - California
      88.148.10.32 - Spain
      87.204.60.174 - Poland (again! WAR! WAR!)
      222.233.120.3 - Korea
      212.99.92.150 - France
      60.248.103.66 - Taiwan
      221.6.5.237 - China! Again! But it's the guy who starts with "fluffy" again...

      China has tried to hack me twice, along with Poland. We must be having a secret war! I'm going to declare war on California, too. You'll see my wrath in the form of an earthquake sometime in the next 30 years.

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    4. Re:Not suprised by XnavxeMiyyep · · Score: 2, Funny

      I can confirm this. I work for the department of defense, and we get port sweeps every day coming from china.

      I can confirm this, too. I work for NetCraft.

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  3. Reason Behind the Attacks by christoofar · · Score: 4, Funny

    They are looking for weaknesses in our defenses against melamine-free wheat gluten, procedures for testing toys for lead paint, and new marketing strategies to get more teenage girls mesmerized by Hello Kitty.

  4. I'm tired... by Sheen · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm tired of the US govt. spying on me, i constantly get scanned by US IP's.

  5. Well ... by BigBlueOx · · Score: 4, Funny

    1) Of course there is a hacking war going on! And this is news?

    2) Blaming "China" is like blaming "America". I mean. How stupid is ...
    oh
    they do?
    on Slashdot??

    never mind

  6. Re:talking about espionage by Stanistani · · Score: 4, Funny

    sure, this remark of mine will invite obfuscating semantic gymnastics Worse, I feel it will invite eschatologically obtuse Apocalypticism.
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